Arrest Data Exposed by South Carolina Firm Included Personal Info of Juvenile Suspects

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Arrest Data Exposed by South Carolina Firm Included Personal Info of Juvenile Suspects
December 11, 2019
https://gizmodo.com/arrest-data-exposed-by-south-carolina-firm-included-per-1840365182

[Update: Spartan Technology, the company responsible for the arrest records described in this story, sent Gizmodo an additional update after it confirming the incident. The company now says the records were only used for testing and that the Social Security numbers were mismatched intentionally with the names that accompany them as a precaution. New comments from CEO Eddie Pruitt and UpGuard have been added at the bottom of this story.]
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Sensitive data related to thousands of arrests in the state of South Carolina were discovered exposed online last month by a California-based security company, Gizmodo has learned. A small percentage of those arrested were considered juveniles at the time of the arrest, said researchers who examined the data.

A researcher at the security firm UpGuard discovered the files in an open cloud store bucket last month among multiple 14 GB databases. The tranche of data included the names of individuals charged with crimes, the alleged victims, and in some cases, the names of witnesses.
What’s more, around 17,000 Social Security numbers were also exposed.

“Spartan was notified about a potential misconfiguration on one of its buckets. Upon the notice, Spartan found the misconfiguration and secured the bucket within a matter of minutes,” said Eddie Pruitt, the CEO of Spartan Technology.
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